Capillary Treaty

Type a word and each letter drops onto wet paper as a mineral well — a pool of pigment that spreads by capillary action through the fibers. Where two pools meet, they don't simply blend: a front forms, a negotiated seam where the wetter, higher-pressure stain holds its ground and the other yields.

Here there are three papers at once — seeded mother, maiden, crone, the triple face — each drawing its own treaty from the same rules. Retype any of them and only that panel redraws. The word decides the wells and their minerals; the paper decides where the borders fall. Same word, same map, every time.